From Homer: “A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.”
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Quote of the day 10/08/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Quote of the day 10/05/24
From George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Quote of the day 10/04/24
From George Orwell: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
Quote of the day 09/29/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Quote of the day 09/28/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
Quote of the day 09/27/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Quote of the day 09/26/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
Quote of the day 09/25/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
Quote of the day 09/24/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”